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Emergency Grant Guidance

• Emergency Aid Grants? We Have Guidance to Share
• Essential Service: Tools of the Trade
• New Resource: Trends & Challenges in Financial Aid Awards

A Sharper Focus: 2019 Education Philanthropy Report

• Refined strategy focuses on increasing equity for learners from low-income backgrounds

Largest-ever Study of Impact of Open Educational Resources in College Reveals Benefits of Introducing OER Courses on a Broad Scale

Community college students taking multiple OER courses earned more credits and similar grades than students who took no OER courses and reported high engagement with course materials; effort saved students $10.7 million and was cost-effective for colleges

New Grants Support a Spectrum of Student Success Initiatives

• ASU Local: Creating a New Model of College Success
• On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field

New Initiative Will Help "Optimize" HEP Delivery in MN, IA and NY

• CAPR Conference Reflects on Developmental Education Reform Research and Next Steps
• Reflections on the First Year of the Ascendium Fellowship Program
• New Book from the NAS Spotlights Strategies for Helping Those Not Benefitting from Developmental Math

Fall 2019 Grantmaking Update

• Celebrating a New Campus in Our Own Community
• Danielle Vetter to Join Education Grantmaking Team
• On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field

GFE Annual Conference to Highlight Ascendium Grant Partners’ Great Work

• Mesa, Arizona Wins the FAFSA Completion Challenge
• New NAS Report Explores Strategies for Helping More Students Succeed in Math
• On the Go: Find Ascendium Staff in the Field

We’re Looking Forward to Connecting, Learning and Sharing at NCAN’s Annual Conference

• How to Build a High-Quality Higher Education in Prison Program
• Tools of the Trade Scholarship Helps Keep Wisconsin Apprentices on the Job
• Recent Grants

Recent Reports from Three Ascendium-Funded Projects Add to Roadmap for Systemic Change

• Text Steps Project Helping 13 Wisconsin School Districts “Nudge” Their College-Bound Graduates to Campus with Timely Text Messages
• Higher Education in Prison (HEP) Funding Opportunity:
  Letters of Interest Due August 1
• Recent Grants

Request for Concepts: Optimizing Higher Education in Prison

• Request for Concepts: Optimizing Higher Education in Prison
• New Workforce Playbook Offers Guide to Aligning Community College Programs with Local Labor Markets
• ATD Convening Builds on Work with Adjunct Faculty and Open Educational Resources